Participated · Safe · Oct 2023

Hiive operates a secondary trading platform where employees, founders and investors can buy and sell shares of private startups. The company is positioning itself to expand secondary-market activity amid a drop in IPOs and growing demand for liquidity in private markets. Reported trading concentration on Hiive was high in Q4 2025: the top 20 most active startups accounted for 86.4% of trading value, and the top five (including SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic) made up 55.6% of value. Hiive intends to use the recently raised $2 million to grow its secondary-market operations. The article does not disclose the company’s founding year, location, revenue, user counts, or previous funding rounds.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2023

Offsite operates a curated marketplace of more than 250 hotels and venues with pre-negotiated discounts on room blocks, meeting spaces, food and beverage, and related logistics. It offers two main planning options: a searchable, Airbnb-style venue marketplace and end-to-end retreat planning services billed as a per-person flat fee. Its full-service offering covers flight booking, venue selection and contracting, agenda creation, budget management, visa procurement, restaurant reservations, and management of vendors such as activity providers, photographers, speakers, transportation, and event production staff. Since launching in 2021, Offsite has planned hundreds of retreats across more than 15 countries for clients that include startups, hospitals, hedge funds, communities, and venture firms. The company is led by founder and CEO Jared Kleinert and intends to use newly raised funds to expand operations and broaden its business reach.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2020

Upflex offers a suite of SaaS solutions and a global marketplace that aggregates flexible workspaces and connects occupiers, brokerages and flex-space providers. The company is the sole aggregator of WeWork inventory following an exclusive partnership that expanded its network to more than 6,000 bookable locations across 80 countries and 900 cities, with 700+ other flex operator partners. Upflex’s data-driven platform provides employers and employees with booking, portfolio management and real-time usage data to optimize hybrid work, sustainability and costs. Founded in 2018, the company positions its technology as the backbone of the flex industry and a standard for hybrid workplace operations. Upflex plans to expand its software offering, recruit talent, and grow its network to 30,000 bookable workspaces by 2025. The company reported total funding to-date of $34.1 million following the new round. Upflex operates a global marketplace for flexible workspaces, giving companies on-demand access to private offices, desks, and meeting rooms by the day, week, month, or year. The platform emphasizes sustainability through a partnership with Trees.org and claims to plant a tree for every booked area; it has planted 10,000 trees thanks to its first 100 clients. Upflex positions itself as a cost-effective, sustainable alternative to large operators and targets medium and large companies looking to reduce real-estate commitments and carbon footprints while offering workplace choice to employees. The company was founded in 2017 by Christophe Garnier and Ginger Dhaliwal and is New York–based. In addition to its marketplace, Upflex recently hired Liassine Talbi, a former IWG Regus executive, as global sales lead. The company plans to expand its standard office options and meeting-room booking capabilities.